Upcoming Leadership Events

The transdisciplinary Women in Leadership reading group will host a meeting to discuss the life and experiences of Jane Addams, one of the most influential female leaders of the early 20th Century. To participate in the meeting, please contact Stephanie Glassburn at Stephanie.Glassburn@cgu.edu.

Women in Leadership Panel DiscussionTuesday, October 5, 2010
A Transdisciplinary Reading Group

The Women in Leadership Across Disciplines reading group will be sponsoring a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 5th at 4:00 p.m. in Albrecht Auditorium. Come learn from women who currently hold leadership positions in a variety of fields who will share their own practical experiences in the workplace.

On the Margin and at the Center: Presidential Leadership for a Pluralistic Democracy
Mildred Garcia, President, California State University Dominguez Hills
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

What role does presidential leadership play in our increasingly pluralistic higher education institutions? How can we best prepare the next generation of higher education leaders for the challenges they will face? How will P-16 partnerships, diversity, and community issues impact the future of higher education? These are just some of the areas Dr. Garcia will address in her presentation, drawing both from her experiences as president of two different institutions and her own scholarship on leadership and diversity.

The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.

Ken Hopper has been active throughout his professional life as a consultant on industrial matters in the U.S. and Europe. As a writer he has taken a particular interest in differing national managerial cultures, which encouraged him to go to Ireland when the ‘Celtic Miracle’ was getting underway, to Japan when that country’s ‘Economic Miracle’ was at its peak and finally to the United States. He is now U.S. citizen living in New Jersey.

Will Hopper has been an investment banker for over 40 years, beginning his career as a financial analyst at W.R. Grace & Co. in New York, then becoming personal assistant to Sigmund Warburg at S.G. Warburg in London. As a Director of Morgan Grenfell in London, he pioneered the Dragon Bond Market in East Asia in 1976 with a fund-raising for the European Investment Bank (ranked by Institutional Investor as ‘Deal of the Year’) and launched the first Eurobond issue for an East European country (Hungary) in the same year.

“Navigating through the Labyrinth” Thursday, April 8th
A discussion of ways women (and men) can develop their leadership ability and access to opportunities.

Optional Reading See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work (Frankel, 2007)

This meeting was a part of the series, Women in Leadership Across Disciplines.

This panel discussion is co-sponsored by the new transdisciplinary group, "Women in Leadership Across Disciplines." This group aims to connect students and faculty from diverse disciplines interested in women and leadership. These different perspectives will enrich our discussion of the support, challenges, and situational landscape women face in leadership positions.

Copies of Through the Labyrinth were raffled off to members of the audience.

This presentation will be the capstone event of a full day of leadership education and development at Claremont McKenna College on Monday, November 2, 2009. Gregg and Bob Vanourek will discuss the book they are writing together entitled "Creating Great Leadership Organizations: Achieving Results with Integrity." They have interviewed people in 50 organizations in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, such as Google, GE, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, and Ashoka, about values-based leadership. Attendees will hear about four practices that lead to the zone of results with integrity, enabling them to lift their leadership to a higher ethical level. Huntley Bookstore will be on site for the purchase of various books related to this event. Books may be signed by the author at the end of the evening.

Women in Leadership Across Disciplines

"From cracks in the glass ceiling to navigating the labyrinth: The complex path to power women face"

The group will discuss the book, Through the Labyrinth (Eagly & Carli, 2007). Refreshments will be provided

Room Burkle 24.
(1021 N. Dartmouth Ave, Claremont CA 91711)

Claremont Leadership Roundtable Luncheon

The most recent Claremont Leadership Roundtable luncheon meeting was Thursday, January 28th at 11:30 am, at the Drucker Institute. Our guest speaker was Robert Waltman of the Claremont University Consortium.

Thursday, February 18, 11:30 amPhilip Nowlen, Head of the Getty Leadership Institute

Thursday, March 4, 11:30 amDr. Birgit Schyns, Portsmouth Business School